Flipper

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Flipper may refer to:

• Flipper (anatomy), a forelimb of an aquatic animal, useful for steering and/or propulsion in water
• Alternate name for a swimfin, footwear that boosts human swimming efficiency
• Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
• Flipper (pinball), a part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
• A speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)
• Flipper (tool), used for flipping food over while cooking

• Flipper (franchise), a multimedia franchise about a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper
  • Flipper (1963 film)
  • Flipper's New Adventure (1964), sequel to the 1963 film
  • Flipper (1996 film), a remake of the 1963 film starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood
  • Flipper (1964 TV series), an adaptation of the 1963 film which originally ran from 1964 to 1967
  • Flipper (1995 TV series), a revival of the 1964 series which ran from 1995 to 2000
  • Flipper, one of the title characters of the Australian animated series Flipper and Lopaka

• Die Flippers, a German Schlager group
  • Die Flippers (album), the group's first studio album, released in 1970
• Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco, California
• Flipper, a former member of the lesbian punk band Tribe 8

• Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
• Flipper, NATO reporting name of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A Soviet fighter aircraft
• M138 "Flipper" portable mine layer, see GEMSS mine system

• Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), first African-American cadet to graduate from West Point
• Willie Flipper Anderson (born 1965), former National Football League wide receiver
• Kirsten Flipkens (born 1986), Belgian tennis player
• Leandro Ruiz Machado (born 1977), Brazilian water polo player
• Carmen Milano (1929–2006), American disbarred lawyer and mobster

• Flipper (mascot), Miami Dolphins mascot from 1966 to 1968
• Flipper (US dinghy), an American sailing dinghy design
• Flipper (Danish dinghy), a Danish sailing dinghy design
• Flipper (robot combat), a device used to flip over opposing robots
• the ATI-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console

• Flip (disambiguation)

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